{"id":4298,"date":"2014-02-05T06:01:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T14:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4298"},"modified":"2014-02-04T20:48:44","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T04:48:44","slug":"kazakhstan-trial-begins-for-retired-pastor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4298","title":{"rendered":"KAZAKHSTAN: Trial Begins for Retired Pastor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forum18.org\" target=\"_blank\">Forum18<\/a>, January 22, 2014<\/p>\n<p>Eight months after his arrest and despite his failing health, 67-year-old retired Presbyterian Pastor Bakhytzhan Kashkumbayev was brought from prison in handcuffs [on the 22d of January] for the first hearing in his criminal trial in a court in Kazakhstan&#8217;s capital Astana. He faces charges of harming health, inciting hatred, propagating extremism, and leading an organization that harms others, Forum 18 News Service notes. The charges carry a maximum penalty of eight, seven, ten and six years&#8217; imprisonment respectively. He denies all wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>About 70 people were present in court to support retired pastor Kashkumbayev, among them foreign diplomats.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged &#8220;religious extremism&#8221; is possession of two books entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Healing-Broken-Abraham-Muslims-publication\/dp\/0971085307\" target=\"_blank\">Healing the Broken Family of Abraham<\/a> and &#8220;New Life for Muslims,&#8221; his lawyer told Forum 18.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forum18.org\/archive.php?article_id=1918\" target=\"_blank\">Read full story<\/a>. For more about persecution in Kazakhstan and throughout Central Asia, see additional stories from Forum18 and the <a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/persecution\/docs\/01persecutionmagazine\" target=\"_blank\">January 2014 issue of Persecution magazine<\/a> (International Christian Concern).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Forum18, January 22, 2014 Eight months after his arrest and despite his failing health, 67-year-old retired Presbyterian Pastor Bakhytzhan Kashkumbayev was brought from prison in handcuffs [on the 22d of January] for the first hearing in his criminal trial in a court in Kazakhstan&#8217;s capital Astana. He faces charges of harming health, inciting hatred, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4298\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">KAZAKHSTAN: Trial Begins for Retired Pastor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4299,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298\/revisions\/4299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}